Improvement in window-screens



M A, KING..` "Window-Screens.

No.vl50,658. Patentedlvlay 5.1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEIGE.

MANNING A. KING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN WINDOW-SCREENS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,65 8, dated May 5, 1874; application filed July 28, 1873.

` my improvement applied to it. Fig. 2 is avertical section through Fig. l, showing the lower sash partly raised. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional View of the spring-roller and its brackets.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts in'the several figures.

This invention has relation to that class of window-screens wherein the netting for keeping out insects is attached to the bottom rail of the lower window-sash and wound upon aspring-roller; and my improvement on these screens consists in constructing` the brackets on which the spring-roller has its end bearings with grooved ilanges adapted to receive the ends of a curved shield, and hold this shield in its place, thereby allowing me to secure the shield and the roller in their proper places, and to detach the same from the window very conveniently.

In the annexed drawings, A designates a window-frame; B B', the two sashes; and C C,the two improved brackets, which latter are secured to the inner sides'of the vertical portions of the frame A. D designates the netting, which is suitably secured to the inner side of the bottom rail of the sash B, and wound around a roller, E, to which roller the lower edge of the netting is attached. Both brackets are constructed with curved angcs g, in which grooves are formed adapted to receive the ends of a curved shield, S, which is 4made of sheet metal, and which is intended to cover the roll'er E and hide it from view, also to protect the netting wound on this roller from injury. The lower edge of the shield S rests upon the window-sill, and is secured to bosses h cast on both of the brackets C C by means of screws, as shown in Figs. l and 2.

It will be seen from the above description that the roller E can be removed from the attachment to the sash B, as shown in Fig. 2.

This rod J, like the roller E and shield S, is removable by. simply detaching one of the brackets in which it has its bearings. I am aware that a guide-rod used in connection with a screen-roller, and also a screenroller actuated by a coil-spring, are not new, and, therefore, I do not claim such invention broadly; but

Having described my invention, I claim- The' brackets G G', both constructed to' afford bearings for the ends of the roller E and the ends of the rolling rod J, in combination with the grooved flanges g and shield S, substantially as and for the purposes described.

. This specification signed this 23d day of July, 1873.

MANNING A. KING.

Witnesses ABM. HERsI-IEIELD, H. J. IIELFMAN. 

